After Friday's post about The Day Time Stood Still, I had an interesting response. People in the room at the time the miracle happened replied, "I never knew." People who stood in their chair and sang "Victory in Jesus" told me, "The Holy Spirit was so strong in that room, but I completely missed the time part." Even someone outside the room had the same experience. She enjoyed the singing, felt the Spirit, and missed the miracle of time.
In my book, The Clay Papers, I wrote about an elderly woman, a potter, with advanced Alzheimers, who had not touched the clay in quite some time. One afternoon, she sat down at the potter's wheel and threw several perfect pots. She was coherent and rational for a brief stretch of time.
There were tears in the eyes of three adults who recognized the miracle of the moment. Ryan, then just a child, played at her feet and never noticed something unusual had happened.
He was only a young boy and he didn't know her baseline. He couldn't know how different she was in the moment.
The people in the room during the time-miracle didn't have watches or cell phones with them. They didn't know about the schedule, or our concerns. They couldn't have known about the moment.
Their comments have caused me to wonder how often I miss miracles. How often we all do.
God is at work around us all the time. We can accept that, in a general sense. When we don't "see" His work, or see it but don't recognize it, we tend to assume He's doing nothing. We'd be wrong about that.
Our failure to see God at work in no way limits His ability to move in a miraculous and supernatural manner.
Ponder that for a moment.
We're missing the good stuff.
I don't think I'd want to know about everything God's doing in the entire universe. It would be too much to comprehend. A bigger glimpse of what He's doing around me would be nice, though.
Today, many of us will attend church services. We'll sing, and read our Bible, and listen to a sermon. We'll wait until time is up and leave to go home. We may, or may not, sense the Spirit of God. We may, or may not, leave equipped and changed for the week ahead.
It depends, at least in part, on our willingness to be equipped, to be changed.
We could do church differently.
We could do life differently.
And we should.
Instead of being content to check off items on our spiritual to-do list, let's ask God to invite us into His adventure. Let's actively seek Him and the places He's at work.
We'll have to change. Go places Jesus would go. Spend time with the kind of people Jesus did. Reach out as He reached out.
So let's do it. Let's step outside of our comfort zone and ask God to let us in to the fun. Make our prayer, "Let us join in where you are at work today, Lord."
I can tell you what will probably happen, because I've prayed that prayer before. He'll let us be a causal observer, but that won't last long. He'll invite us into the fields to help with the harvest, and hat's where the real fun begins.
Today, let's take a step into a deeper relationship with Christ and experience the great fun of seeing God at work.
"For it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure." Philippians 2:13 nasb
"You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart." Jeremiah 29:13 nasb
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In case you missed it, here's the link to yesterday's post: Can We See Miracles Every Day? Yes, We Can
p.s. - This is the last post in our miracles mini-series. If you want to share some of the miracles you've seen, let me know. I'll happily do a blog about them.
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